Macau Closer (Nov-Dec Issue) – Revisiting Dewey Lambdin’s The King’s Privateer

My latest column for Macau Closer magazine (available online here or from Livraria Portuguesa bookstore) It is a truth universally acknowledged in the international book trade that readers love historical naval adventures – the high seas, dashing captains, exotic locales, threatened mutinies, ocean battles. Unfailingly these tales involve tall ships at full sail, cannon fire, the Royal Navy and the Napoleonic Wars. And Dewey Lambdin’s 1992 novel The King’s Privateer ensures Macao is an integral part of the early nineteenth century world and shows just how the Napoleonic Wars (1803-1815) were truly global and encompassed Macao and southern China. Click here to read in full…